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COOKING classes and courses

Meet your neighbours, pick up new skills and boost your confidence in the kitchen

We run fun, friendly cooking sessions in our kitchen, designed to give community members the skills and confidence they need to enjoy cooking for themselves and others. From our Men's Grub Club and Cook for Health adult courses, to our holiday classes for children, we'll provide the chefs, food and equipment - all we need is you.

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It was great to learn how to waste less food by turning bits from the fridge into a meal.

Want to get cooking?

We publish all our cooking sessions on Eventbrite, and notify everyone on our invite list when a new one is coming up. So please use the form below to get on the list, and look out for emails from us.   
In the meantime, here’s a flavour of some of our most popular ones.

Healthy ingredients to make food at a community cooking class in London
Cooking course

Men’s Grub Club

If you’re a man aged over 60, and would like to pick up some cooking skills and meet others of a similar age, this is for you. Learn how to make delicious, comforting meals alongside your neighbours, then sit down and enjoy the food together.

A low cost meal made at a community cooking class near Kings Cross
Cooking class

Kids aged 9 and over

Send your teens and tweens to our kitchen to learn how to make the kind of food they love to eat – from scratch. They’ll get all the help they need from our team of chefs, and enjoy the chance to sit together and eat what they’ve made.

Healthy ingredients to make food at a community cooking class in London
Cooking course

Cook for Health

This course is designed to build a community of people with diabetes, and explore how to cook meals and make lifestyle changes which will have a positive effect on their condition. It’s a six-month course, run in partnership local GP Dr Jane Myat.

Soup being made at a community cooking class near Kings Cross
Cooking class

Parents and kids aged 4-8

Come along with your younger children for a hands-on cooking session. Our chefs will take them through the recipes step by step, and help them use kitchen equipment safely too. And you’ll be there to give as much or as little help as they need.

Get on our invite list

If you live in the Kings Cross area, and are interested in joining us for cooking classes and / or community meals, please sign up here. We’ll email you when we’re putting on a new class or meal, and ask you to register your interest in coming along.